On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 8:59 PM, frantisek holop<min...@obiit.org> wrote: > # vnconfig svnd0 install46.iso > > why wasn't fstat showing this information? > even doing "fstat -f /adata/install46.iso" returned > nothing.
fstat reports on open files, not files in use. as you've discovered, there are ways for a file to be in use without being open by a process.